Thitherland, Settlements

SETTLEMENTS of THITHERLAND

The Brruppit-Hugg (“ghost town” in Grippli) There are some old ghost towns in the Thitherland Forests, human settlements from a hundred or more years ago, now grown over in moss and decay. They aren’t large, just a little main street and a few buildings, a few homes on the outskirts. The Grippli stay away from them, and they are a strange and haunting experience for any Tessinae passing through. Any bibbit would do well to raise their little home away from a brruppit-hugg.
(It is true that a number of residents in the Thitherland Hills are on the run from this or that. The forests here are a haven for criminals on the run from the empire.)
Historical Note

• 275-200 ya / 652-727 ce: Old Algor Towns in the Thitherland Hills: An Algor population, moving east from threats of the Catfolk, moves into the area of Thitherland, led by an independent group of Algor rangers. In the Hills they meet the (understandably skeptical) Grippli, and when the Algors set up small towns in the glades and valleys, things got tense. No one knows what happened to these “pioneers.” Perhaps the Grippli know. In any case, the towns are ruined now, and the human population in the Hills is a) very small, b) not at all dense, and c) on Grippli terms.

THITHERLAND is a loosely affiliated nation of Cities and Villages. It is organized mainly around trade. There is no military and very little government sponsored law enforcement. Instead, the people of the towns work together to keep the peace.
THE CITY OF ARCHER is a small city in the lowlands at the base of the hills. There is a town further north called FRAME, the gateway to the northern nation of Kaprivious, and some smaller villages called VERA and SCOAT.
ETTA is the largest town in the hills. It is the only town or village not solely dedicated to mining.
THITHER is the town from which one enters the Thitherland Forest. It does much trade with the people living in the forest itself. There are villages here and there, sparsely placed in the forest itself: JINN, GREENSTALK, BORR, and KREMLAN.

THITHERLAND TOWNS FOR A MAP

• Archer, large, lowlands, seat, begin here… a trading gateway from south to north
• Frame: North of Archer, border with Kaprivious:
• Bruppit-Huggs: Throughout forest, especially on higher ground
• Vera and Skoat: small towns on the way south, near the hills
• Etta: Largest in the hills, only one not dedicated solely to mining
• Redside and Fellenkish: Mines / Mining towns… many more small ones
• Thither: Gateway to the forest
• Jinn, Greenstalk, Borr, Kremlin: The Tessinae villages in the forest
• Jibbit and Frubbit: Two major Grippli villages
• Tebna: Older Ones only real village, on the Jamais, a tributary of the Junglebend

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